To Be True To A City
O'Hara, Frank88 USD
Date
2018
Category
Poetry
Description
An essential collection of reviews and essays on the poetry, prose and plays of Frank O'Hara, including those by Kenneth Rexroth, Kenneth Koch, Francis Hope, Gilberto Sorrentino, Fielding Dawson, and Thomas Meyer. Published by University of Michigan Press, 2018. 399 pages.
Excerpt
his involvement with Painting, his unabashed homosexuality, his alarming mixture of High romantic seriousness and take-no-prisoners wit—in general, His complete audacity—still rather embarrass our official literary culture, but not his readers/friends. He had a gift of making life seem like a secret club for those committed to loving it sufficiently, meaning to absolute distraction.
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